To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.